" HOW NOT TO DO IT."
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—I have been a reader of the Spectator for the past fifty years. Your article in last week's issue, "How Not to Do It," is one well worthy of consideration and approval by every man in the Unitel Kingdom. There is an element in the English character which con- strains us to deal generously with our enemies. Broadly speak- ing, it is not desirable that anything should be done to weaken this trait in our character. The exception to the exercise of this spirit has been created by the awful calamity brought upon the whole • world by this war, wickedly and unjustifiably commenced by the German nation, military and civil. A peace, firm, stable, and lasting, must be on terms dictated by the Allied Power's alone, involving just but severe punishment to the German nation, and it is in her highest interests that Germany should be brought to realize the enormities of her immeasurable crime, and suffer so keenly that she will never again seek to dominate the whole world, or any part of it, by imposing her will by brute force, utterly re- gardless of the rights of other peoples.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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